אֶרֶץerets
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Root
hurutsa
to raise dust, to make dust rise; causative of huruka, to rise
Eretz descends from Shona hurutsa, the dry ground that rises as dust
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- אֶרֶץ ('ereṣ)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics holds אֶרֶץ to be a primary noun from Proto-Semitic *'arṣ- (often reconstructed with the lateral emphatic, *'arṣ́-), with cognates in Akkadian erṣetu, Ugaritic 'arṣ, Phoenician 'rṣ and Arabic 'arḍ. No relationship to Bantu is recognised, and any Afroasiatic layer above Proto-Semitic is treated as contested proposal.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 links from the attested form down to the root — the segment-by-segment correspondences, the phonological breakdown and the case for the derivation are behind an account.
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Elsewhere in the corpus
- בראbara (kubara)to beget, to bring forth, to give birth; in Karanga and Ndau craft use also to pare or hollow out
- Edenhudendeabundance, plenty, superfluity; from -dende, gourd or large calabash
- Nekevahnengovenotch, grooved cut; one bearing a notched or bored thing (variant nhengove)
- ZakhárZikirato know thoroughly, to recognise, to be acquainted with, to hold in mind (applicative of -zika / -ziva, to know)
- Pesachpesato pass, to pass by, to go past, to swerve aside; kupesana, to pass one another without meeting
- Megiddogudurato knock off, to break off, to dislodge a piece